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Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Tales from the Cafe: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Tales from the Cafe audiobook runs 5.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Kevin Shen (about 3.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

5.5listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 5.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Tales from the Cafe at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day11 days
1 hour / day6 days
2 hours / day3 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×4 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 5.5 hours, it is shorter than 82% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

995 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Tales from the Cafe is book 2 of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold series: a 5.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Kevin Shen, released October 12, 2021, on the Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature) and Literary Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
5.5 hrs
Narrated by
Kevin Shen
Released
October 12, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature), Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
Series
Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series #2
ISBN
9781488212345

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Tales from the Cafe audiobook?

Tales from the Cafe runs 5.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.7 hours.

Is the Tales from the Cafe audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates Tales from the Cafe?

Tales from the Cafe is narrated by Kevin Shen.